9L of ADA is at 97RM. I saw shrimp sand at 30RM per small bag. At least needs 4 of those for 2ft tank? My existing tanks are with ADA soil...mosses growing good without co2 (low end tank just dose co2 booster liquid) and shrimps doing ok even when i disturb the soil.

I also plan to setup new 1ft tank with only sank, so i wondering i follow ur step using sand, can immediately put in the cherry shrimp? or have to wait for the tank cycle? 

Eventually gonna retire the office tank and bring it home.
Thanks for the tips as always. U overdose prime before adding shrimps right?

My new tank is everything new.. filter media is has pre-packed bacteria and i plan to dose seachem stability. You reckon a week is ok?

Substrate is shrimp specific non fertilized ones.

Also should I add activated carbon? Was in a rush, didn't have time to fully soak the driftwood more than an hour. I suspect its gonna be leeching tannins.

Done setup 1x2ft tank with remaining black ADA soil black colour. Now doing cycle with used media but new filter.
2nd tank of 1ft tank needs soil/sand.
3rd tank of 3ft with cycled water is ready for malaya.

Since blue velvet is sensitive, should i move fire red and yellow from this sharing tank to new tanks? Sharing tank is with the ADA amazonia red colour soil. Is it good colour match with blue velvet?

And will black soil be good match colour for fire red?

So yellow golden back should be with what colour soil? Or maybe trying sand.
Arrow pls advise..

Pure ammonia is a bit hard to find. What do you think if I just put a copious amount of fish food in a panty hose and chuck it inside?

Hi dave...welcome to this thread.

Glad to have you here. Am only seeing your nick @ my-mac. Guess you should be the same person
Lol of course I would love to...so let's hope my reds go into a breeding frenzy soon...then in no time I'd have such tank too All I need is patience....since my tank is small. 4 berried females at the moment so let's see what the shrimplets survival rate is...
Woot! Congrats on tank no.2!!! Yup just be patient in cycling it. Better be safe than sorry. It was more than a month before I had any shrimps in.
Seachem stability or prodibio digest. I used digest for mine. Used the normal one as I couldn't find the nano/start up version back then.

I have not used activated carbon at all since day 1. Replaced it purigen instead (like what arrow recommended). Besides, activated carbon could only last up to a month...so I didn't want to go thru the hassle. But since I'm having planted tank too activated carbon is not necessary. Purigen really helps to make the water clean & clear.
Gratz on the new tank! Like what arrow said anything looks good on dark background apart from those dark colored shrimps. I'm using ADA soil too...and with those green plants...fire red pops out good contrast

@arrow: crap I think I have some air pockets still im the soil. Mind telling how it'll post to be a timebomb? If it escapes it disturbs the soil hence ammonia is released with it?

Travelling again this whole week so have fun folks! Will drop in when I'm free

ADA soil not that easy to find around my area but fish food got a lot of spare.

A bit blur here... why 100% water change? Wouldn't that be the same as starting all over again?

Anyone tried to put galaxy rasbora together with SHrimp?
are they safe with shrimp? sweat.gif

cant resist they are such a gems

Yeah its aquarium soil.

Ammonia alert still no detect anything yet.

Had a shrimp death today in the old tank

arrow First time have molting death. Saw this fella molt in the open (usually they hide around the plants) and just when it jump out of the shell, another shrimp nearby jumped at it. Then I notice it didn't fully molt... the very end of its tail didn't disconnect properly. This morning dead liao.

So I'm curious if kena kacau from another shrimp caused this or what.

Arrow's recommendation to add plant friendly substrate to introduce ammonia to the tank.

The water seems to be in good shape. No ammonia or nitrite. Normal nitrate. TDS stable for long time at ~183.. same with ph, gh and kh.

I moved the tank to a corner since I got the new tank and it seems that the shrimps were more active when ignored. It's one of the rare occasion when I look into the tank and saw it happen.

I meant the old tank lah... new tank still have now fauna.

Growing BB and moss now.

ADA Africana. I have one tank with that soil. Oh dear, how to add the soil now to the malaya tank? shrimp already in the tank (cycled tank ex-fish).

A bit off, i'm trying to setup a aquarium for shrimp, does this look strong to you for 10 years? 2x1x1 feet aquarium. The welding looks ok but i'm not sure any one have bad experience with it...

So far my fire red, yellow and blue velvet shows good colour in this soil colour.

But I have sponge filter in Malaya tank..so how to cycle water? I would need to take out the shrimp 1st, add soil and add on shrimp again later?

Oh what happend to your previous 2 batches?

what color does the baby fire red have actually? I have one baby shrimp about 5mm long, looks gray in colour to me

Got some protein buildup and squashed a planaria and a seed shrimp on a cycling tank. Is that a good or bad sign?